HA3 1.1 – Preparing Breakfast Together
Every day, Hide wake up at between 03:00 – 03:15 AM, and he didn’t need alarm to wake him up. Today was no exception. He just opened his eyes slowly, gave his mind a few seconds to come together before getting up from the bed. He did it very gently to avoid waking up Aizawa who was still fast asleep.
Then, a small smile bloomed in Hide’s lips as he fixed Aizawa’s blanket. Aizawa maybe could solve a problem for 4th grade kid with ease. Her disposition also more mature compared to kids at her age. However, in the end of the day she was only a six-years-old kid, a child in her tender age who needed intensive parenting. The clear sign for it was, she wanted to sleep with her parent or someone she treated as their replacement.
After another smile Hide then went to kitchen with his laptop and schoolwork, and putting it in the dining table. After that, he started his routine. First, he washed his face and brushed his teeth, and then cooking some rice using rice cooker before doing the laundry using washing machine.
In his previous life Hide would do the laundry only for his clothes and Aizawa’s clothes, and he would do it while having big and dark sulking face like someone who wanted to destroy the world. As for his father’s clothes, he would let him to wash it by himself.
‘Fuck me. It’s only washing some clothes. How could I treat it as if it was the heaviest work in the planet?’
Hide was truly ashamed with the way how he saw things in his previous life. Therefore, in this life he happily included his father’s clothes in his laundry routine. Since a week ago he would also tidied up his father room before he came home, twice a week at least.
Then, as the washing machine did its job, Hide casually did the school work while enjoying a cup of warm soymilk and a piece of milk bun. In his previous life, he had established a good understanding of biology, physics, chemistry, and math that related to software engineering, precision shooting, advance combat medic, body development, IED manufacturing, and ammo recycling, and it helped him a lot with his study and the goal to enter medical school.
Even so, there were still lot of aspect of chemistry, physics, biology, and math that he had not mastered yet. Therefore, Hide didn’t slack off at all. Not to mention, people who entered medical school and aimed for top spot in each department, were usually top students who were being prepared and groomed by their family to lead and dominate the future of medical field since early age.
Also, it was not a secret that since ancient time Nikko was a country heavily influenced by nepotism. If you were only slightly better compared to other candidate with good connection, the corporation definitely wouldn’t choose you to handle the position you had competed for. Slightly better ability meant nothing in front of good connection that could support the corporation in a broader spectrum.
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In short, if he wanted to enter surgeon field, Hide had to be fully ready to face a full-scale war against top students with solid background, connection, brain, and motivation, and delivered a crushing defeat to each one of them. He had to take this challenging route or he would end up as leftover surgeon with average career.
But that’s for the future. For now, he had something more pressing matter to handle. Right at 04:48, the washing machine completed its job. Hide immediately tidied up his school work, and went to hang the almost dried up clothes in the terrace. Once he hung everything, he took his time to deeply inhale the morning air while looking at the eastern sky that started turning red.
A moment later, he heard incoming light steps and when he checked it his gaze meet with Aizawa’s expectant gaze.
“Big Bro, can Aizawa help you cook breakfast?”
After a smile Hide replied, “You can.”
Actually, it was slightly too early for Aizawa to wake up and started her activity, but Hide chose to accommodate her request. It was good opportunity to teach her some kitchen work.
“However, you have to wear your jacket first,” Hide added.
“Mhm.” Aizawa nodded before cheerfully half-jogged to her room and returned to Hide wearing her black jet Yuko Mountain jacket.
Along with Aizawa, Hide then opened all windows in the house, except the one in his father room. After that the two went to kitchen. After ensuring Aizawa took a few gulps of warm soy milk and finishing a piece of milk bun, Hide took her to cook breakfast.
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Almost every Friday afternoon, Sakura Shopping District had chicken meat and egg on sale. It’s a good chance to get cheap but high quality protein, so Hide always bought boneless chicken thigh and egg in bulk every time the sale occurred.
To store it, he would cut the chicken thigh into bite size, put it into food-grade ziplock bag three portions each, marinated it with chopped garlic and ginger or curry powder, soy sauce, and sake or beer. Then, he would push the air out of every bag, tightly tied it, and put it in the freezer. This way, he could use it whenever he had to cook in limited time.
He only had to add flour, cornstarch, and one beaten egg to the marinated chicken, mixed everything well, and then fried it. As for the leftover from the marinating coat, he would add chopped kimchi and three beaten egg on it and turned it into scramble egg.
After putting a bag of marinated chicken to frying pan, Hide went to check on Aizawa. Her task was to cut a pack of broccoli into bit size using kitchen scissor. Coincidently, she had finished it when Hide checked on her.
“Nice work,” Hide happily complimented Aizawa.
And Aizawa proudly nodded, “Mhm.”
“Now, microwave it at 500W for 30 seconds.”
“Mhm…” After a moment of pause Aizawa hesitantly added, “But Aizawa doesn’t know how to use microwave.”
“It’s very easy. Big Bro will teach you.”
Wasting no time, Hide taught Aizawa how to use microwave. After that he taught her how to season the freshly microwaved broccoli with sesame oil, soy sauce, and bonito flake. Then, he asked her to taste a piece.
“How is it?” Hide happily asked.
After swallowing the piece of broccoli she had chew Aizawa said, “It’s tasty and made Aizawa want to eat it with warm rice.”
“Yeah,” Hide said before taking a piece of broccoli and savored it. “This bonito flake flavored broccoli is Dad’s favorite beer snack. One day, let’s make it together for him.”
“Mhm.” Aizawa happily nodded.
Hide then gave Aizawa her second task. She had to peel two big carrots using a peeler, grate it into long thin strip using box grater, microwave it for 20 seconds at 500 W, and then season it with a bit of ginger paste, soy sauce, and sesame oil.
Actually, it would be much faster if Hide did everything on his own. However, as he had decided earlier, it was a good opportunity to introduce Aizawa to some kitchen works. Then, once everything was ready, Hide taught Aizawa how to divide and arrange each dish into three take-out paper boxes.
After that, Hide and Aizawa packed their school uniform and bathing miscellaneous into a sport bag, and carried it to Beauty and the Beast along with their school bag and breakfast they had just made.
Of course, before leaving the house they had closed and locked every windows and door. They also left a message for their father in the fridge’s door, saying that they went for morning exercise on their way to the school.
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